Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small compared to the quantitative increase in U. S. productive capacity in 1920-29, the Five-Year Plans represented a greater rate of increase. They doubled Russia's industrial stature, made her an industrial power, left her self-sufficient in production of oil, coal, iron ore, manganese, cellulose, cotton, super phosphates. But it set a vast segment of the Russian proletariat moving from factory to factory, from village to city, in one of the great tidal movements of humanity that Tolstoy long ago described as the ceaseless wanderings of workmen over the earth. It ended uniform wages. Breakdowns, delays...
HARLAN, Ky.--The Black Mountain Corporation, operating two soft coal mines at Kenvir, Ky., today signed a union shop contract involving 1,150 men with the United Mine Workers of America...
...sometimes said that the U. S. coal industry, disposed as it is to overproduce, needs a good strike about every three years. For the nation as a whole this is certainly no formula for wealth and plenty. The six-week soft-coal deadlock that ended last week caused serious and conspicuous economic damage. Retail trade in the strike area dropped 15% to 20%. Estimates of the total loss of purchasing power ran as high as $100,000,000. Though last week's settlement came in time to prevent large-scale stoppage of factories, ships or railroads, the effects...
...bituminous operators, however, the strike was by no means an unmixed evil. On April 1 total bituminous coal stocks had piled up to 40,550,000 tons-nearly a six-week supply at the average rate of U. S. consumption (1,000,000 tons per day). Not all this accumulated coal was shoveled away during the strike...
...Some coal users shifted to oil. Anthracite operators not strike bound, jumped production 49%, despite a price rise of 15? per ton. But the 40,000,000-ton pile of bituminous was burned down to some 20 to 25,000,000 tons, leaving coal's statistical slate clean...